Harvard Lecturer: Legalize Drugs to End Border Violence

Yurt said:
besides the ability to shut our border if we really wanted to, great idea. obviously prohibition and the so-called war on drugs is a colossal failure so something else must be done. i don't think if coke or crack was legal more people would do it, in fact i believe just the opposite would happen. i don't feel comfortable making those drugs legal, however, making them illegal hasn't worked at all.

marijauna should abosolutely be legal. at least 95% of the people that try marijauna and then move on to harder drugs do so only because the people selling marijuana usually also sell other ilicit drugs. legalize marijuana and the problem will be cut by probably 95%.

i like your idea though.
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Well keep in mind that ending prohibition and utilizing a public health approach isn't exactly the same as legalization. In the countries that have utilized this approach, overall, drug abuse of all kinds, incluidng alcohol and tobacco have gone down. Not only that but crime rates have gone down and the social costs have gone down.

The only problem we have in switching to this approach is educating people about it. As long as people view drug abuse as a crime instead of an illness then it will be political suicide for a politician to advocate it.

This probably won't happen in my life time but could in a few generations.
 
webbway said:
Listed to a news show this morning and they said if Obama wants to stop the violence in Mexico, finish building the fence along the border and enforce all U.S banks to stop accepting matricula consular card as a way to open bank accounts. You cut off their access to bring drugs in, and for them to transfer drug profits back to Mexico. Plus you put people to work building the fence.
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Only a person with the IQ that God gave a mentally deficient sea slug can't reason it out that a border fence has got to be the stupidest idea since someone tried to combine electrostimulation with hot tubs.

If you wing nuts build the damn thing you might considering defraying it's construction cost by leasing advertising space on it. Maybe Bank of American can put a sign on it to the affect "We Accept Matricula Consular Cards" or McDonald can put up one that say's "Usted merece una rotura hoy." or "Un el grande con queso comida del valor para $4.35" at least the damned fence would serve some sort of productive function in advertising as the Mexicans go over, under and around it.
 
AssHatZombie said:
A big huge fence is the best approach.
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How about if we just build a big long fence in a circle and drop all you paranoids in there and tell you that you're all there by yourselves? Would you feel safer then?

I would be hard pressed to think of a more idiotic idea coming out of our government.

Building a wall or fence along the Mexican border would have to rate up there with invading Iraq, The Smoot-Haley Tarif act, the Dred Scott decision and electing Warren G. Harding as the dumbest god damned thing this nation has ever done.

Other than wasting a whole bunch of money what possible good could a fence do? Wouldn't it just be easier and more affective to tattoo "FUCK YOU MEXICO" on the forehead of every person in Texas?
 
blackascoal said:
Legalizing drugs is the only sane solution and at some point it will be the only solution available.

However, the Obama Administration is not that point. He does not have the courage to stand behind it because he's much too worried about what republicans think and his image. How will he look?

This is yet another example of how just much republicans should be ignored.
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Damn .. thats really funny....gloriously stupid, but funny nonetheless...

He really gives a shit what Republicans think?

His image would suffer? In whose eyes? Republicans ?

That crack was worthy of desh...
 
Mottleydude said:
Well keep in mind that ending prohibition and utilizing a public health approach isn't exactly the same as legalization. In the countries that have utilized this approach, overall, drug abuse of all kinds, incluidng alcohol and tobacco have gone down. Not only that but crime rates have gone down and the social costs have gone down.

The only problem we have in switching to this approach is educating people about it. As long as people view drug abuse as a crime instead of an illness then it will be political suicide for a politician to advocate it.

This probably won't happen in my life time but could in a few generations.
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never said it was :pke:
 
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